I got my budgies a little over a week ago from a pet store....They were on an all seed diet. I can't get them to even consider anything else! I bought a mixed blend of seeds a pellets and they only pick out their favorite seeds and throw the rest. I have been offering fruits and veggies every day also and they won't touch them. Help!

I got my budgies a little over a week ago from a pet store....They were on an all seed diet. I can't get them to even consider anything else! I bought a mixed blend of seeds a pellets and they only pick out their favorite seeds and throw the rest. I have been offering fruits and veggies every day also and they won't touch them. Help!

 

Hi You will find that all budgies are a bit picky. Don't forget your birds are like all kids with food. They play with it. pick over it .

 

& just love to make a mess. Don' worry they will grow out of it. Yours B.J.

I would also add that a week isn't very long. Keep giving your budgies vegetables, it will probably take several weeks before they are comfortable enough to take their first taste of them.

 

As for seed mixes that contain pellets, I have found that it is better to get seeds and pellets separately. As you have seen, they just kick out the pellet portion and waste it. So you are paying for a certain percentage of your bag of seed mix that you are not using. If you want to give them pellets, you can buy them separately, and feed them in a different dish. Then your bag of pellets will last a lot longer, if you regulate how much you give based on how much they actually want.

 

 

I think of pellets kind of as a supplement. Like how we have breakfast cereal that is marketed as nutritionally complete. But it still doesn't mean it is suitable to make up our entire diet.

Thank you! That's why I'm so worried that they won't eat anything else, because everything I've read says they need a balanced diet of seed and/or pellets and fruits/veggies. i will just keep trying and hopefully they will give in and try some!

Hi The original idea with pellets ( Like chicken feed) was that it was

 

 

to be a total diet containing all the nutrients a bird would need.

 

 

So no seed veg/fruit needed. When that didn't work it was offered

 

 

as a additive containing all the extra little goodies your birds needed.

 

 

If you knew what pellets are made of ... Like sausage it's better not

 

 

to know. Ask any budgie pellets taste like S***T.

 

 

If your feeding a good mix diet of seed fruit /veg you don't need to

 

 

waste your money on pellets. Yours B.J.

Edited March 9, 201213 yr by Bird Junky